History Quizzes - Answers
1. The Flaws of Leaders
1. Caligula
2. Henry II
3. Napoleon, Waterloo
4. Jefferson, Adams
5. Charles V
6. Anthony Eden
7. Teddy Roosevelt
8. 1066, 1483, 1936
9. Edward the Confessor
10. Henry VIII
11. Wilhelm I
12. Balfour, Heath
13. W.S. Gilbert, Pirates of Penzance
14. Louis IX, St Louis
15. Nadir Shah
16. Stalin
17. Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, among many
18. Harold Holt
19. De Klerk 1994
20. Caravaggio
2. European Events in the Last Millennium
1. 1085 Pope Urban V
2. 1241
3. Gutenberg, Mainz
4. 1453, Mehmed II
5. Ferdinand and Isabella
6. Zwingli, Calvin
7. Church Council
8. Habsburgs
9. 1799
10. 1848
11. 1861
12. 1795, 1939
13. Trotsky of Stalin
14. 1939
15. Malenkov, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev, Yanayev
16. De Gaulle
17. 28
18. Norway
19. 1991
20. Russia
3. Early Roman History
1. 753 BCE
2. Tarquins
3. Corinth
4. 509 BCE
5. Etruscans, Samnites
6. Pyrrhus, King of Epirus
7. Via Appia
8. Three
9. Trasimene, Cannae, Zama
10. Scipio Africanus
11. Julius Caesar
12. Marius, Sulla, Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Mark Anthony, Brutus
13-15. Marks invasion of Italy, Rubicon, near Rimini
16-17. Ides of March, 15 March.
18-19. Romulus and Remus
20-1. Patricians, plebeians.
4. The Roman Empire
1. Caligula
2. Flavians
3. Londonium
4. Lugdunum (Lyons)
5. Lutetia
6. Sicily, Egypt
7. Hadrian, Trajan
8. Three
9. Byzantium
10. Hadrian’s, Antonine
11. Danube
12. Jupiter
13. Livy
14. Eburacum (York)
15. Watling Street
16. Mithras
17. Petronius
18. Gibbon
19. Alaric and the Visigoths
20. Odoacer
5. Italy after 500 CE/AD 1300
1. Dante
2. Giotto
3. Gonzaga
4. Venice/Genoa
5. Macchivelli
6. Montiverdi
7. Genoa
8. 1797
9. Napoleon
10. Piedmont
11. Mazzini
12. Red
13. 1915
14. By train
15. Pontine Marshes
16-18. Libya, Ethiopia, Albania
19. Umberto
20. Bertolucci
6. The Tudors
1. East Anglia
2-3. Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck
4. Chancellor
5. Elizabeth I
6. Treasonably denying Henry VIII’s Supreme Headship of the Church
7. Henry VIII
8. Katherine Howard.
9. Chantry chapels
10. The official English Bible
11. Lady Jane Grey
12. Philip II
13. Bess of Hardwick
14. Lord Burghley
15-16. 1536, 1569
17. Fotheringhay Castle
18. Francis Walsingham
19. Parishes
20. Ephesus
7. The Stuarts
1. James VI
2. Addled Parliament
3. James I’s wife Anne was a Danish princess
4. The French
5. Vienna
6. The Duke of Buckingham
7. John Pym
8. The battle of Edgehill
9. Preston
10. Charles II
11. Master of the Mint
12. Three
13. Dunkirk
1.4 Tangier
15. East India, Levant, Russia, Hudson Bay, Royal African
16. As brothers-in-law, kings of France and Portugal
17. William III and James II
18. 1707
19. Marlborough
20. Dr Johnson
8. The Eighteenth Century
1. Saint Domingue
2. Qianlong
3. Third Panipat, Afghans and Marathas
4. Tahiti
5. Cook
6. Peter the Great
7. Turkey
8.-9. Uranus; Herschel
10. Bernoulli; Jacob and Daniel
11. Montgolfiers; send up a balloon
12. Mosquitoes
13. Latitude
14. Freemasonry
15. Rousseau
16. L’Espirit des Lois (The Spirit of the Laws)
17. Louis XVI
18. Rouget de Lisle
19. Jacobin Club
20. Napoleon
9. The Nineteenth Century
1. Indentured
2. Bolivia
3. Little Big Horn
4. Victoria
5. Mesopotamia (Iraq)
6. Vincenzo Bellini
7. 1857
8. 1842
9. Singapore
10 Tokyo
11. 1860
12. Origin of Species
13. Austria, Russia, Prussia
14. Maximilian
15. Brazil
16. Andrew Jackson
17. Grant
18. Lesseps; France
19. Aida
20. Mendel
10. The Twentieth Century
1. John Logie Baird
2. Rachel Carson
3. 1997
4. 10
5. 1945
6. 3 billion
7-8. Muhammad Ali Jinnah; Pakistan
9. Biafra
10. 6 billion
11. Russian Central Asia
12. 1979
13. George H.W. Bush
14. 1980
15-16. 1976; Franco
17. Manchuria
18. F.D. Roosevelt
19. Eisenhower
20. East Germany
Geography Quizzes – Answers
1. Physical
1. The study of the shaping of the Earth’s surface.
2. Air currents in the atmosphere.
3. A detached river meander.
4. The deposited material at the front of a glacier.
5. The strength of the underlying rock.
6. Where water comes to the surface as the underlying strata changes to impermeable rock.
7. Igneous.
8. Sedimentary.
9. Metamorphic.
10. Estuary.
11. Delta.
12. Pre-Cambrian.
13. Cambrian.
14. Silurian.
15. Ordovician.
16. Permian.
17. Cretaceous.
18. Triassic.
19. Jurassic.
20. Sill.
2. Seas 1. White
2. Baltic
3. No
4. Tasman
5. Cook
6. Black
7. East China
8. South China
9. Adriatic
10. Arabian
11. Mediterranean
12. Caribbean
13. Okhotsk
14. Tyrrhenian
15. Philippine
16. Coral
17. Bengal
18. Southern
19. Pacific
20. Irish
3. Inland Waters 1. Dead.
2. Galilee.
3. The Caspian Sea.
4. Aral Sea.
5. Lake Chad.
6. Victoria.
7. Tanganyika.
8. Malawi.
9. Nyasaland.
10-14. Erie, Huron, Superior, Ontario, Michigan.
15. Michigan.
16. Superior.
17. Geneva.
18. Constance.
19-20. Como, Garda, Maggiore, Lugano, Orta.
4. Rivers 1-2. Ganges; Brahmaputra
3. Irrawaddy
4-5. Yangtze, Yellow
6. Indus
7. Plate
8. Nile
9. Khartoum
10. No and Victoria
11. Aswan
12. Munro Park
13. Nile
14. Amazon
15. Peru
16. Brazil
17. Turkey
18. Tigris
19. Volga
20. Danube, Bug, Dnieper, Don
5. Mountains 1. Olympus
2. Kilimanjaro
3. Aconcagua
4. Fuji
5. Table Mountain
6. Baker
7. K2
8. Snowy Mountains
9. Great Dividing Range
10. Mount Kosciuszko
11. New South Wales
12. 7,310 feet (2,228 metres)
13. Ben Nevis
14. Caucasus
15. Pamirs
16. Pyrenees
17. Alps
18. Apennines
19. Atlas
20. Tarsus
6. Capitals 1. Tirana
2. Luanda
3. Yerevan
4. Baku
5. Manama
6. Minsk
7. Sucre
8. Turin
9. Phnom Penh
10. Djibouti (city)
11. Baghdad
12. Winchester
13. Tamworth
14. Salò
15. Florence
16 Brandenburg
17. Guinea
18. Guyana
19. Barbados
20. Botswana
7. Neighbours 1-5. Vietnam, Russia, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Afghanistan, Kyrgystan,
Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Tajikistan, Pakistan
6-10. Spain, Andorra, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg
11. East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia
14-16. Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Palau, Australia
17. USA-Canada
18. Texas
19. Germany
20. Japan
8. American 1. St Louis
2. Louisiana
3. San Diego
4-5. Arizona, Utah
6. Pensacola
7. Tennessee, Kentucky
8. Carolina, Dakota
9. Duluth
10. Maine
11. Hawaii
12. Alaska
13. Austin
14. Little Rock
15. Harrisburg
16. Blue Ridge Parkway
17. I-66
18. I-95
19. Seattle
20. Portland
9. Australia/New Zealand/Pacific
1. Portugal
2. Netherlands
3. Britain
4. Viscount Sydney, Home Secretary
5. Queen, wife of William IV
6. Aunt
7. Norfolk
8. A lake
9. Launceston
10. Kangaroo
11. Christchurch
13. Palmerston North
14. Adelaide
15-16. Tahiti, New Caledonia
17. Vanuatu
18. Fiji
19. Oahu
20. Pitcairn
10. European 1. France
2. Strasbourg
3. France, Britain, Netherlands
4. Bratislava
5. Fiat
6. Odessa
7. Federation
8. EFTA
9. Basques
10. Minorca
11. Aeolian
12. Istria
13. Dalmatia
14. Britain
15. Spain
16. Danube
17. Po
18. Poland
19. Kaliningrad
20. Lichtenstein
Literature – Answers
1.
1. Bede
2. Byrhtnoth in the Battle of Maldon
3. The Green Knight
4. Wife of Bath
5. The Miller’s
6. English
7. A Plowman
8. John Wycliffe
9. Thomas Wyatt
10. Sir Thomas More
11. John Foxe
12. Sir Philip Sidney
13. Kyd
14. 1580-1620
15. Marlowe
16. Dr Faustus
17. Bayezid
18. Edward II
19. Devil
20. The Duchess of Malfi
2.
1. Shakespearean sonnet
2. Blithe Spirit
3. Emma
4. Can You Forgive Her?
5. John Masefield
6. Horace Walpole
7. The Castle of Otranto
8-9. Verona; Milan
10. Ariel
11. Richard
12. George, Duke of Clarence
13. His brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester
14. James I
15. Pericles
16. Mystery Plays
17. Claudius
18. Cyprus
19. James I
20. The Winter’s Tale
3.
1. The Theatre; The Globe; the Rose; the Curtain
2. John Dryden
3. Nahum Tate
4. Andrew Marvell
5. John Bunyan
6. Samson
7. John Milton
8. The Devil
9. The Gazette
10. Steele and Addison
11. Sheridan
12. Henry Fielding
13-17. Robinson Crusoe; Colonel Jack; Moll Flanders; A Journal of the Plague Year; Roxana
18. Fanny Hill
19. Laurence Sterne
20. William Strahan
4.
1. Gulliver’s Travels
2. Samuel Johnson
3. Johnson
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica
5. William Wordsworth
6. Ann Radcliffe
7. Joseph Addison
8. The Dunciad
9. Alexander Pope
10-11. Sir Robert Walpole; John Gay
12-13. Oliver Goldsmith; The Vicar of Wakefield
14. Joseph Addison
15. David Garrick
16-17. Thomas Chatteron; fifteenth century
[17 William Blackstone]
18. Alexander Selkirk
19. Daniel Defoe
20. Mary Wollstonecraft
5.
1. Kipling
2. Churchill
3. Charles Dickens
4. The village cricket match from Pickwick Papers
5. Jane Austen
6. Sense and Sensibility
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Pamela
9. ; or, Virtue Rewarded
10. Henry Fielding
11. First Impressions
12 Sense and Sensibility
13. Pride and Prejudice
14. Northanger Abbey
15. Northanger Abbey
16. Mansfield Park
17. Fanny Burney
18. Marianne Dashwood
19. Pride and Prejudice
20. Cousin
6.
1. Dickens’ Hard Times
2. Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
3. the real George Eliot
4. Workers in the Dawn
5. George Gissing
6. Jude the Obscure; Thomas Hardy
7. Charles Kingsley
8. Alfred Tennyson
9. Arthur Wing Pinero
10. Salome
11-14. Lady Windermere’s Fan; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of
Being Earnest (1895)
15-17. Widowers Houses; Mrs Warren’s Profession; The Philanderer
18. The Moonstone
19-20. George Eliot, Adam Bede; Wilkie Collins, the New Magdalen
7.
1. Anthony Trollope
2. Oliver Twist
3. Bucket
4. Pip
5. Drowning
6. Old Curiosity Shop
7. David Copperfield
8. Our Mutual Friend
9. Household Words
10. Henry Mayhew
11. Oliver Twist
12. David Copperfield
13. Great Expectations
14. Dombey and Son
15. Our Mutual Friend
16. Barnaby Rudge
17. Nicholas Nickleby
18. Nicholas Nickleby
19. Cloisterham
20. Rochester
8.
1. Virginia Woolf
2. A period of interior monologue
3. In the forefront
4. Fu-Manchu
5. Arthur Sarsfield
6. Thomas Burke; World War One
7. Sapper
8. H.C. McNeile
9. A demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull
10. The Oxford English Dictionary
11. Mrs Warren’s Profession
12. Pygmalion
13. Women in Love
14. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
15. Ulysses
16. A movement, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century, which aimed to make a
break with the past and to find new forms and means of expression.
17. Four
18. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
19. The Waste Land
20. Homer, Pound
9.
1. Hercule Poirot
2. Captain W.E. Johns
3. Arthur Ransome
4. Henry Williamson
5. J.B. Prestley
6. Brave New World
7. G.B. Shaw
8. Anna of the Five Towns
9. Arnold Bennett
10. John Galsworthy
11. Kipling
12. J.M. Barrie
13. Virginia Woolf
14. Edith Sitwell
15. Passage to India
16. Smaug
17. Mordor
18. Nazguls
19. Dorothy Sayers
20. Toad in Wind in the Willows
10.
1-2. Winnie the Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner
3. George Orwell
4. Walter Greenwood, Love on the Dole
5. The Real Inspector Hound
6. Tom Stoppard
7. Hilary Mantel
8. Maurice
9. E.M. Forster
10. Roald Dahl
11. Charlie
12. James
13. Hogwarts
14. William, Just William stories
15. The Hungry Caterpillar
16. Meg married John
17. Jo married Professor Baer
18. Amy married Laurie
19. The orphan heroine of a novel set in Prince Edward Island
20. E. Nesbit
21. Bonus: Anne, Peter, Lucy, Edmund